- (Belarusian: Ваўкавыск, romanized: Vaŭkavysk; Russian: Волковыск; Polish:
Wołkowysk; Yiddish: וואלקאוויסק) is a town in
Grodno Region, in
western Belarus...
- In the
period between 1919 and 1939
Wołkowysk County was part of the
Second Polish Republic. It was part of the Białystok
Voivodeship and the seat of...
- and
Jadwiga (née Bielska). She
attended gimnazjum in Nowa
Wilejka and
Wołkowysk until she left home in 1929, for Białystok. She
married Franciszek Wójcicki...
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during the
Soviet invasion of Poland. It was
fought between the
Polish Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade commanded by Wacław Przeździecki and
Edmund Heldut-Tarnasiewicz...
- po****tion of 4,407. Roś was a
private town,
administratively located in the
Wołkowysk County in the Nowogródek
Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
- Przeździecki's
Grodno Defense Group included Edmund Heldut-Tarnasiewicz's
Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade, Stanisław Szostak's 32nd
Armored Reconnaissance Group...
-
Wilno Land) as well as in
parts of the Białystok
Voivodeship (Grodno and
Wołkowysk Counties). In the part of
Wilno Voivodeship (until 1926
Wilno Land), in...
- 683) 0.1% (9) 0.3% (45) 4% (656) 2.3% (369) 0% (2) 0.2% (35) Belarus
Wołkowysk 15,027 49.6% (7,448) 38.8% (5,827) 0% (7) 0.1% (10) 6.9% (1,038) 4.6% (689)...
- (present-day Belarus). He grew up in a
Polish Jewish family on a
large farm near
Wolkowysk and was one of
three children born to Józef
Lemkin and
Bella née Pomeranz...
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which included the Białystok,
Bielsk Podlaski, Grajewo, Łomża, Sokółka,
Wołkowysk, and
Grodno counties, was "attached" to (but not
incorporated into) East...
